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Plone Symposium East 2008 Day 1

March 12th, 2008 by Jon Fernandez
Location: (42° 3' 11"N x 88° 19' 34"W)

“This is easily the Plone tool of the symposium.”
— overheard from fellow attendee after Jonathan Smith’s presentation on High Resolution Image Viewing and Annotation Tools for Plone

I am blogging from my Hotel Room at the Nittany Lion Inn, having completed the first day of the 2008 Plone Symposium East. This is the first big meeting for the Plone Community since the release of Plone 3. There is a heavy representation of the Academic Community, as well outside vendors and other Plone community luminaries. Mostly developers here and it feels like I am one of the few designers here.

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Jonathan Smith’s talk wowed the crowd, and if they knew the location of his office at Northwestern I am certain there would be people pounding down his door to get these tools. The most common question for him was “When can we have this?”. The answer: “Soon.”

Tomorrow Eric Carty-Fickes will present the work he has been doing on Plone Integration with Blackboard and I have the inenviable task of giving one of Harlan’s presentation (he had prior commitments and I will be filling in for him). The name of my talk is “Plone tools aiding Cultural Heritage” and I will touch on some of the NUAMPS work in China.

Right now I am taking pictures using my Sony Ericsson camera phone, so please excuse the poor quality of images. I also am without Photoshop or any image editing software so I am using a complicated system of Apple Preview and taking screenshots to get these images in the blog.

Off to run through my presentation and then sleep. More blog tomorrow…

Self-portrait

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3 Responses to “Plone Symposium East 2008 Day 1”

  1. Chris Wallace Says:
    March 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am

    It’s great to hear there was such a good response to Jonathan’s talk, though I can’t say it’s surprising. The tools he’s developed are really impressive.

    Also, I’m sure you’ll do a great job on the presentation. Like Jonathan’s work, the Shuilu’an project is very compelling. People will no doubt walk away from your presentation impressed.

  2. Harlan Wallach Says:
    March 13th, 2008 at 9:38 pm

    All excellent news.
    We’ve known all about the great work coming out of 2EAST and it is time that others get the word as well.

    so….

    How did the last presentation of day 2 go ?

  3. digital slr camera photographer Says:
    May 27th, 2009 at 3:11 am

    Hey, not bad for a picture taken by a camera phone ;) . Pretty clear I guest. Just don’t rally mind the pixels, after all is a handy camera phone quality not a dslr camera.

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